Rajasthan India Deep: Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Mount Abu & Pushkar Complete Guide 2026
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Rajasthan India Deep: Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Mount Abu & Pushkar Complete Guide 2026 TL;DR Rajasthan is India's largest state by area and the country's most photographed royal landscape outside the Taj corridor. I planned three weeks here in early 2026 and still left a list of forts unseen. This guide covers the cities and zones outside Jaipur, which I treated in a separate Block 53 post. The five anchors here are Udaipur the "Venice of the East" with City Palace founded 1559 and Lake Pichola, Jodhpur the "Blue City" under the cliff face of Mehrangarh Fort begun 1459, Jaisalmer the "Golden City" with its 1156 living fort inscribed under Hill Forts of Rajasthan UNESCO 2013, Mount Abu the state's only hill station at 1,220m with the Dilwara Jain Temples carved in marble between the 11th and 13th centuries, and the temple-fair circuit of Bikaner with Junagarh Fort 1588-93 plus the...